acpid and logging
Steve Grubb
sgrubb at redhat.com
Wed Oct 10 13:33:50 UTC 2007
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 09:16:19 Zdenek Prikryl wrote:
> since version 1.0.6, acpid does not use separate file for logging. It uses
> openlog() and vsyslog() instead of own implementation of logging. So
> everything go to /var/log/messages.
Yes, I have been chatting with upstream since I'm getting about 6-8 events a
second. He claims I'm the only person on the planet that is getting this rate
of events and my BIOS is broken. It makes syslog hard to use for researching
problems, but not unreadable.
> But it could be dangerous. According to this bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294391, it could lead
> to unreadable /var/log/messages.
I do not see anything in that bug that tells how it damages or makes syslog
unusable. I find that it floods syslog, but its not unreadable.
> So there are two options:
> 1. Get back to old style logging (but upstream does not want to)
> 2. In /etc/rsyslog.conf append a filter for acpid, so rsyslog will be
> logging messages form acpid in separate file.
There's a third option, which I've asked upstream about, make some of these
messages DEBUG and only log abnormal messages at the higher syslog
priorities. IOW, not all messages are of the same importance. Seriously, my
battery being full of power or me connecting to AC power is not a syslog
worthy or any log worthy event unless I'm debugging a problem.
Upstream is of the opinion that I'm the only person seeing a high rate of
events and doesn't really want to fix it unless others report similar
problems. Am I the only one?
Thanks,
-Steve
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